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R (Greyhound Board of Great Britain Ltd) v Welsh Ministers [2026] EWHC 670 (Admin) What are the practical implications of this case? The ruling reinforces the constitutional divide between the courts and the legislature. It explains that the scheme and framework of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (GWA 2006) embody that separation of powers, and that any judicial attempt to recognise and enforce a common law obligation on Welsh Ministers to consult prior to introducing legislation in the Senedd would trespass upon that boundary. This is not a departure from established principle; case law has already upheld comparable rules for lawmakers in Scotland and at Westminster. However, this is the first express confirmation of the position for Welsh lawmakers, and the first time this dimension of the GWA 2006 has been analysed in such depth. The court examined earlier
The solution arrived through the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC), a quasi‑judicial body handling mass claims, created under UN Security Council Resolution 687. By addressing environmental harm—most notably via its ‘F4’ claim class—the UNCC set a seminal benchmark shaping how international law and contemporary arbitral panels allocate financial responsibility for wartime ecological devastation. With present-day wars in areas such as Eastern Europe and the Middle East bringing dam breaches, strikes on chemical facilities, and the burning of farmland, the UNCC’s legacy endures as an essential reference point for states, global investors, and companies engaged in post‑conflict arbitration. The F4 claims: Quantifying the unquantifiable Prior to the 1990s, mechanisms in international law for war reparations overwhelmingly favoured property loss, foregone earnings, and bodily injury. The natural world was commonly treated as a mute, non-compensable victim of armed hostilities...
Understanding the farming business as a business Many farms still use long-standing structures that arose by habit, not strategy. Sole traders, informal partnerships and outdated partnership deeds are common. While once effective, such setups can cause major issues around succession, tax planning and involving the next generation. A corporate team can take a fresh, business-led view of the farm, asking: Who owns the land and other critical assets? Who manages daily operations? Who carries the risk and who enjoys the return? What is the enduring plan for succession? From this review, the team can confirm whether the current setup is fit for purpose or if an alternative — for example an updated partnership agreement, a company, a limited liability partnership, or a blended model — would better meet the family’s aims. Tax efficiency through joined-up advice Tax sits at the centre of most
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New Risk & Compliance forecast as at 17 February 2026 Our Risk & Compliance forecast, dated 17 February 2026, monitors proposed regulatory developments relevant to Risk & Compliance, enabling you to prepare for any changes that might affect your organisation over the coming months. You should examine it closely, though we’ve highlighted several key priority points that warrant your attention below as priorities. New items we’re tracking this month Privacy notice generator—the ICO intends to refresh its existing guidance for the privacy notice generator, including DUAA 2025 amendments. The publication date remains to be confirmed......
The European Commission has set out this year’s slate of priorities, and what should be set aside, for secondary legislation to implement the EU AI Act, according to an internal note viewed by MLex. Secondary legal acts are commonly used in EU lawmaking to confer powers on the Commission to amend or add non‑essential elements of a law via a delegated act, or to secure uniform application through an implementing act. Where the basic law is silent, the EU executive may decide when to adopt such secondary measures, enabling it to order its own regulatory agenda. In a list compiled earlier this month, the Commission detailed its priorities for implementing the EU AI Act in 2026. It also pointed to a set of ‘de‑prioritised’ items, although it is still uncertain whether that implies they are not due to be adopted this...
Risk & Compliance weekly highlights—12 February 2026 In this issue: Data protection Sanctions Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New and updated content Data protection ICO updates data protection by design guidance following DUAA 2025 commencement The Information Commissioner’s Office ( ICO) has issued refreshed guidance on data protection by design and by default to align with the commencement of key provisions of the Data ( Use and Access) Act 2025 ( DUAA 2025). The guidance stresses that organisations should weave data protection into the creation and running of systems, services, products and processes, so that only the minimum personal data needed for each specified purpose is gathered, used, kept and accessed. It sets out the need for suitable technical and organisational measures, including strong security controls, clear retention approaches, privacy-friendly default settings and routine risk reviews via data...
Risk & Compliance weekly highlights—5 February 2026 In this issue: Data protection Sanctions Other Risk & Compliance updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New and updated content Data protection Key provisions of Data ( Use and Access) Act 2025 to come into force on 5 February 2026 The Secretary of State has laid the Data ( Use and Access) Act 2025 ( DUAA 2025) ( Commencement No 6 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2026, SI 2026/82, bringing the bulk of DUAA 2025 data protection reforms into effect from 5 February 2026. The commenced measures cover research and statistical purposes, consent for scientific research processing, the lawfulness of processing, purpose limitation, data subject requests, automated decision-making, data protection by design for children, and transfers of personal data to third countries, among other areas. Additional provisions...
Seema Malhotra told a debate in the House of Commons on 28 January 2026 that the government intends to bring forward the Equality ( Race and Disability) Bill. The measure represents a Labour Party manifesto pledge. It would introduce new compulsory reporting requirements on the pay gap for employers with more than 250 staff members and codify a right to equal pay for disabled and ethnic minority workers, mirroring the protection already in place for women. However, Malhotra did not set out any timetable for presenting a draft bill. She stated to MPs only that at present......
Risk & Compliance weekly highlights—29 January 2026 In this issue: Data protection Sanctions Other Risk & Compliance updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New and updated content Data protection EDPB issues refreshed FAQs and procedural rules on the EU- US Data Privacy Framework The European Data Protection Board ( EDPB) has released updated guidance on the EU- US Data Privacy Framework ( DPF). The package includes revised frequently asked questions ( FAQs) for European individuals and organisations, a refreshed template complaint form for DPF-related commercial grievances, and amended rules of procedure for the informal panel of EU Data Protection Authorities ( DPAs), superseding the versions adopted in 2024. See: LNB News 26/01/2026 7......
In this issue: Data protection Sanctions AML, CTF & counter‑proliferation financing Cybersecurity Other Risk & Compliance updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New and updated content Data protection ICO updates guidance on transfer risk assessments ( TRAs) for international data transfers The ICO has refreshed its guidance on carrying out transfer risk assessments ( TRAs) for overseas transfers of personal data under the UK General Data Protection Regulation ( UK GDPR). The revisions implement changes made by the Data ( Use and Access) Act 2025, including a shift in terminology so that TRAs are now termed ‘data protection tests’ in UK law. See: LNB News 19/01/2026 25. ICO publishes updated guidance on international transfers of personal data The Information Commissioner’s Office has revised its guidance on international transfers of personal information. The update is intended to...
Shifts in policy, supervisory strategies and priorities, newly regulated activities drawing more firms within the regulatory perimeter, further rewrites of EU‑derived rules after Brexit, and sector‑specific adjustments—we’ve witnessed the lot. The job for firms now is to map how to handle the changes and challenges that 2026 will deliver. In this piece, we set out the detail of five changes already scheduled for fixed dates in 2026, and we also flag five others that remain in development, but which we expect to move forward significantly during 2026... Targeted support: April 2026 In July 2025, HM Treasury outlined a new regime for targeted support. This service would become a stand‑alone regulated activity under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 ( FSMA), made possible by amendments to the FSMA ( Regulated Activities) Order 2001. Providing investment advice is a...
The UK’s limited approach to whistleblowing Although the UK officially brought in whistleblower protections in 1998, it has, like many European jurisdictions, traditionally been hesitant to reward whistleblowers. Stakeholders have raised worries about malicious or bad-faith reports, the exposure of whistleblowers under cross-examination, the possibility of criminal investigation where they are implicated in the disclosed conduct and, more broadly, the belief that disclosures should rest on moral rather than monetary motives. In practice, the principal deterrents to reporting misconduct are the absence of financial incentives and certainty. Prospective whistleblowers in senior roles or specialist fields may fear enduring career harm and consequent financial hardship if they speak up, particularly where robust and adequate (financial) safeguards are lacking. Current UK legislation The cornerstone statute on whistleblowing is the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998, which modified the Employment Rights Act 1996. Its purpose is to shield workers from...
Risk & Compliance weekly highlights—15 January 2026 In this issue: Employment Rights Act 2025 Forced labour legislation Other Risk & Compliance updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Employment Rights Act 2025 Employment Rights Act 2025 commencement regulations update Employment Rights Act 2025 commencement regulations update The government has issued the Employment Rights Act 2025 ( Commencement No. 1 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2026. These bring into effect parts of the Employment Rights Act 2025 ( ERA 2025) that: repeal the Workers ( Predictable Terms and Conditions) Act 2023; extend the ban on exclusivity terms in zero hour contracts; and activate various other sections that permit secondary legislation to be made. See News Analysis: Employment Rights Act 2025 commencement regulations update......
The High Court found that Portner Law Ltd owes the money to the liquidators of Grosvenor Property Developments Ltd Notwithstanding that the joint liquidators had already realised roughly £10.5m through separate proceedings against other defendants, the court held Portner must pay the sum claimed. Judge Saira Salimi noted that Portner had, ambitiously, attempted to contend the further claim represented a surplus and amounted to double recovery. The liquidators accepted that, in some respects, duplication would occur; however, as recorded in the judgment, other settlements demonstrated either no overlap at all or only a partial overlap with the sums sought from the firm. Salimi J commented that it was regrettable the parties could not resolve this point and that an additional hearing was needed to deal with double recovery, a step that may lessen the funds available to satisfy creditors in the...
In this issue: Data protection Sanctions AML, CTF & counter‑proliferation financing Other financial crime Other Risk & Compliance updates this week Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New and updated content Data protection Commission renews UK adequacy decisions for EEA– UK personal data transfers The European Commission has extended its pair of 2021 adequacy findings, allowing the free and secure movement of personal data between the European Economic Area ( EEA) and the UK under the General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR) and the Law Enforcement Directive. These renewals follow a six‑month technical prolongation adopted in June 2025, which allowed the Commission to evaluate amendments to the UK data protection regime introduced by the Data ( Use and Access) Act. The measures were adopted after a positive opinion from the European Data Protection Board and endorsement by Member States through the comitology process. Each adequacy decision carries a six‑year sunset, ending on 27...
Additionally, one espionage case involving service to foreign states ended in a win for prosecutors, while a sister trial proved humiliating; one of the nation’s largest money‑laundering actions saw a socialite, alleged to be central to the plot, cleared; and the UK’s highest court stopped an extradition for insider trading in a move that bucked precedent. Here, Law360 unpacks the year’s most significant financial crime cases... UK Supreme Court quashes Libor convictions In R v Hayes; R v Palombo [2025] UKSC 29, Britain’s top court in July 2025 overturned the convictions of traders Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo for conspiring to manipulate benchmark interest rates. The pair had been found guilty of rigging the London interbank offered rate ( Libor) and its euro‑denominated counterpart after separate trials following the 2008 financial crash. The justices ruled the verdicts unsafe, holding that the trial judges...
This is the first instalment in a series of News Analyses, each concentrating on one of the principal changes within ERA 2025. The measures are arranged by the date of implementation (or anticipated implementation). Employment Rights Act 2025 (pdf) The Employment Rights Act 2025 overview factsheet, issued on 18 December 2025, confirms that: ERA 2025 will be rolled out in phases over a two‑year period common commencement dates (6 April and 1 October) will be used to bring the majority of regulations made using ERA 2025 powers into force the government remains committed to the timelines set out in the Implementing the Employment Rights Bill Roadmap, published on 1 July 2025 Review of extent of right to time off for public duties Provisions: section 19 Main changes: Requires the Secretary of State, within 12 months of the passing of ERA 2025 (ie before 18 December 2026), to review the...
The document largely repackages the SFO’s own 2020 internal guidance and leaves the existing rules untouched. Rather than changing the framework, it provides a readable, albeit fairly high‑level, point of reference for organisations by setting out the legal circumstances in which the SFO may scrutinise corporate compliance programmes, together with the sources it will weigh when judging effectiveness. In that sense, it is a helpful tool, mirroring the SFO’s sustained push under Nick Ephgrave towards a more hands‑on model of corporate engagement. A central message is also underlined: a compliance programme must work in practice and not amount to a box‑ticking exercise on paper. The document falls short of the granularity seen in comparable materials from other jurisdictions—most notably the US. The SFO’s implicit stance appears to be that organisations already possess sufficient publicly available guidance and resources. Even so, the...
In this issue: Risk & Compliance forecast Data protection Sanctions AML, CTF & counter‑proliferation financing Other financial crime Legal professional privilege Risk & Compliance Highlights 2025/2026 Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Risk & Compliance forecast New Risk & Compliance forecast as at 16 December 2025 Our latest Risk & Compliance forecast (dated 16 December 2025) is now available. This edition covers: (1) the ICO’s refreshed intention to issue guidance on lawful basis, smart data and automated decision‑making; (2) the LSB’s fresh consultation on boosting diversity across the legal profession; and (3) developments on the Employment Rights Bill, which could secure Royal Assent ahead of the Christmas recess, and (3) movement on the Cyber Extortion and Ransomware ( Reporting) Bill. See News Analysis: New Risk & Compliance forecast as at 16 December...
New Risk & Compliance forecast as at 16 December 2025 Our Risk & Compliance forecast dated 16 December 2025 monitors proposed regulatory developments across risk and compliance, bringing them together to help you prepare for any updates that may affect your organisation. Please examine it thoroughly; however, for ease, we have signposted a few matters that ought to be on your radar below. New items we’re tracking this month ICO guidance on lawful basis—the ICO plans to release, in winter 2025/26, refreshed guidance on lawful basis to address DUAA 2025 changes......
This has had a significant impact on European businesses and the lawyers representing them. In this article, we examine the implications arising from recent developments across the UK and EU sanctions frameworks and assess what further changes may credibly be expected in the near future. Measures aimed at Russia under UK and EU regimes have multiplied markedly since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, creating a far denser compliance landscape. Consequently, the body of legislation practitioners must master to advise clients effectively in this area has grown markedly, requiring deeper familiarity to advise clients properly in this field. Before hostilities began, the UK’s Russia-focused regulations, introduced in 2019 as part of the UK’s exit from the EU, comprised only 64 pages in total at that time. Amendments over the past three and a half years have expanded that to 529 pages in...
The proposals With no further guidance from the government on how corporate defendants would be tried under these proposals, we are, for the time being, left to compare and contrast its announcements with the recommendations set out in the report ( Independent Review of the Criminal Courts: Part 1). Sir Brian suggested replacing the defendant’s option to elect a jury trial with the following measures: Establishing a new Crown Court Bench Division ( CCBD), comprising a judge and two magistrates, to which any either-way case could be allocated for hearing and disposal, with hearings convened in ‘any available courtroom’. Using judge-only trials for ‘serious and complex fraud’ cases, and permitting judges to direct their use in any matter of ‘anticipated length or complexity’, as circumstances warrant. Sir Brian further indicated that the threshold for identifying a ‘serious and complex’ fraud could encompass instances where...
Risk & Compliance weekly highlights—11 December 2025 In this issue: Data protection Sanctions AML, CTF & counter‑proliferation financing Other financial crime Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New and updated content Data protection ICO updates right of access guidance to reflect DUAA 2025 changes The Information Commissioner’s Office ( ICO) has refreshed its right of access guidance under the UK General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR) to align with the Data ( Use and Access) Act 2025. It confirms that, when handling Subject Access Requests ( SARs), organisations need only conduct searches that are reasonable and proportionate, and may pause statutory time limits while clarifying the scope of a request. Issued ahead of certain provisions taking effect, the update is intended to help organisations prepare for the forthcoming changes. It is targeted at data protection officers and others with...
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